Adopt-A-Family

The “I Have A Dream” Foundation of Boulder County’s annual Adopt-a-Family program connects community members to Dreamer Scholars and their families to help brigten the holidays and provide gifts to those in need. When you sign up as an Adopt-a-Family donor, you will receive the wish list of a family in our program with gift ideas valued at $40 each. You then shop and deliver the wrapped gifts at designated drop-off location to be distributed to the families before the school's Winter Break.

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An Overview of the Adopt-A-Family Program

Each holiday season, "I Have A Dream" seeks community members to "adopt" Dreamer Scholars and their families to help provide them with gifts and brighten their holiday celebrations. The families range in size from two to ten members. Each Dreamer Scholar and his or her family submit a "wish list" of gift ideas that are approximately $40. Donors are matched with wish lists and then gifts are distributed to the families, often at school holiday parties.

We also offer the option to Adopt-A-Center which allows supporters to donate items to one of our nine learning centers throughout Boulder County. Donations made toward the Adopt-A-Center initiative will benefit over 50 Dreamer Scholars and guests who utilize those facilities year-round, after school and during the summer.

In 2014, we also started the Adopt-A-College Dreamer program to involve our Dreamer Scholar alumni who are away from home and in college, by sending them care packages. It was wonderful to witness the different ways community members put together creative packages to support our college Dreamer Scholars during their finals.

History of A-A-F: The Adopt-A-Family Program began in 1999, when 10 University of Colorado—Boulder departments and a number of individuals and private companies helped to provide much-needed gifts to 77 low-income Dreamer Scholars and their families. Since then, the program has continued to grow. Outside companies, private donors, and "I Have A Dream" board members and mentors, among other volunteers and community members work to fulfill the needs of all the families.

A huge thanks to everyone who participated in the 2017 Adopt-A-Family gift drive! Nearly 1,600 Dreamer Scholars and their family members received gifts last holiday season, thanks to generous contributions from over 250 donors. All of our sites received donations to support their after-school programming through our Adopt-A-Center program and thirteen Dreamer Scholar alumni currently in college received care packages through our Adopt-A-College-Dreamer-Scholar program.

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